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The untold story of Chicago’s pivotal role as a country and folk music capital. Chicago is revered
as a musical breeding ground, having launched major figures like blues legend Muddy Waters,
gospel soul icon Mavis Staples, hip-hop firebrand Kanye West, and the jazz-rock band that shares
its name with the city. Far less known, however, is the vital role Chicago played in the rise of
prewar country music, the folk revival of the 1950s and 1960s, and the contemporary offspring of
those scenes. In Country and Midwestern, veteran journalist Mark Guarino tells the epic centurylong
story of Chicago’s influence on sounds typically associated with regions further south.
Drawing on hundreds of interviews and deep archival research, Guarino tells a forgotten story of
music, migration, and the ways that rural culture infiltrated urban communities through the radio,
the automobile, and the railroad. The Midwest’s biggest city was the place where rural transplants
could reinvent themselves and shape their music for the new commercial possibilities the city
offered. Years before Nashville emerged as the commercial and spiritual center of country music,
major record labels made Chicago their home and recorded legendary figures like Bill Monroe,
The Carter Family, and Gene Autry. The National Barn Dance—broadcast from the city’s South
Loop starting in 1924—flourished for two decades as the premier country radio show before the
Grand Ole Opry. Guarino chronicles the makeshift niche scenes like “Hillbilly Heaven” in Uptown,
where thousands of relocated Southerners created their own hardscrabble honky-tonk subculture,
as well as the 1960s rise of the Old Town School of Folk Music, which eventually brought national
attention to local luminaries like John Prine and Steve Goodman. The story continues through the
end of the twentieth century and into the present day, where artists like Jon Langford, The
Handsome Family, and Wilco meld contemporary experimentation with country traditions.
Featuring a foreword from Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Robbie Fulks and casting a crossgenre
net that stretches from Bob Dylan to punk rock, Country and Midwestern rediscovers a
history as sprawling as the Windy City—celebrating the creative spirit that modernized American
folk idioms, the colorful characters who took them into new terrain, and the music itself, which is
still kicking down doors even today.